This bibliography lists works relating to or including information on the Middle Eastern manuscript collections in Cambridge University Library, including the collections in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hebrew, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic and Malay.

Also included is information on the Cambridge scholarly tradition and individual Cambridge Middle Eastern scholars.

A list of printed catalogues, which frequently contain descriptive material, can be found here.

Matthews, NoelA guide to manuscripts and documents in the British Isles relating to the Middle East and North Africa.
Oxford : Oxford University Press [for the School of Oriental and African Studies], c1980.

Browne, Edward GranvilleMaterials for the study of the Bábí religion.
Cambridge : The University press, 1918.

Browne, Edward Granville.A year amongst the Persians : Impressions as to the life, character, & thought of the people of Persia, received during twelve months' residence in that country in the years 1887-1888.
London : A. and C. Black, 1893.

Irwin, Robert. For lust of knowing: the orientalists and their enemies.
London: Allen Lane, 2006 .

Lee, SamuelThe travels of Ibn Batūta : translated from the abridged manuscript copies, preserved in the public library of Cambridge with notes, illustrative of the history, geography, botany, antiquities, &c. occurring through the work. CUL Manuscript. Qq.203-5.

Lewis, Bernard.British contributions to Arabic studies,with a preface by A.J. Arberry.
London, New York: The British Council by Longmans, [1941]

Browne, E.G.
Catalogue and description of 27 Babi Manuscripts.Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1892, 259-260.

Browne, Edward Granville
Description of an Old Persian commentary on the Qur’an Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1894, 417-524

Browne, Edward Granville
Note on an Apparently Unique Manuscript History of the Safawi Dynasty of Persia.Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1921, No. 3, 395-418

Browne, Edward Granville
The Persian manuscripts of the late Sir Albert Houtum-Schindler, K.C.I.E. (now in Cambridge)Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Oct., 1917, 657-694.

Dalby, A.K.
A dictionary of Oriental collections in Cambridge University LibraryTransactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, vol. IX, 1988, 248-280

Edwards, E. Some rare and important Arabic and Persian manuscripts from the collections of Hājjī 'Abdu'l-Majīd Belshāh; now either in the British Museum or in the private collection of Professor Edward G. Browne.
in: A volume of Oriental studies presented to Edward G. Browne on his 60th birthday, ed. T.W. Arnold and Reynold A. Nicholson.
Cambridge, CUP, 1922, 137-149.

Fedeli, Alba
The digitization project for the Qu'rānic palimpsest, MS Cambridge University Library Or.1287, and the verification of the Mingana-Lewis edition: where is salām?Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, 2011, No 2:1, pp. 100-117, 121

Hunt, Lucy-Anne
Illustrating the Gospels in Arabic: Byzantine and Arab Christian miniatures in two manuscripts of the early Mamlūk period in Cambridge.in The Bible in Arab Christianity, ed. David Thomas, 325-349.
Leiden, Brill, 2007.

Jones, John Robert
Thomas Erpenius (1584-1624) on the value of the Arabic Language.Manuscripts of the Middle East, 1 (1986), 15-25.